BOOK OF NEEDS. BOOK OF NEEDS OF THE HOLY ORTHODOX CHURCH WITH AN APPENDIX CONTAINING OFFICES FOR THE LAYING ON OF HANDS. DONE INTO ENGLISH BY G. V. SHANN. LONDON: DAVID NUTT, 270 STRAND. 1894. TO HIS EXCELLENCY C.P. POBEDONOSTZEFF, CHIEF-PROCURATOR OF THE MOST HOLY GOVERNING SYNOD OF RUSSIA, THESE TRANSLATIONS ARE INSCRIBED. PREFACE. The following pages contain a translation with some omissions, of the Slavonic service book entitled, _Trébnik_, or, _Book of Needs_, so called, because it contains the provision for that which is spiritually needed by a Christian from the cradle to the grave. To this is added, as an appendix, a translation of a portion of the service book entitled, _Chinóvnik archieréiskaho svyashtshennosloujéniya_, or, _Office book of the bishop’s holy service_, namely, that pertaining to the laying on of hands.[1] The original used for the translation of the first named work is an edition published in Moscow in the year 1882, and that for the portion of the second, one published in the same city in the year 1890. The omissions, made under competent advice, in the translation of _Trébnik_ are as follows, I. The entire of the epistle and gospel lessons, these being indicated by their initial and concluding words only, with one exception, namely, in the office of the sanctification of water on the festival of the Epiphany, where the lessons from the prophecy being written at length those of the epistle and gospel are made to correspond. II. Questions asked of penitents in the confessional, and instructions concerning the imposition of penance, as explained in foot-notes at pages 49 and 51. III. Some prayers for various occasions which are not of general interest (chapters xxii, xxiii, xxx, xxxi, xxxii, xxxiv, xxxv, xxxvi, xxxvii, xxxviii, xxxix, xl, and xli). IV. Extracts from the Nomocanon (chap. xlii), many of which refer to obsolete heathen customs and habits, and all need the living voice of the pastors of the church for their proper present application. V. The Kalendar and the Paschal Tables (chapters xliii and xliv), these having been given in the translator’s former work, _Euchology_, published in Kidderminster in the year 1891.[2]